Folder Indexer feature request

The Folder Indexer is an elegant solution to putting an Orthanc front end on a pre-existing folder tree of DICOM images. Thanks for the great work!

I had a suggestion for a feature that might speed up management of systems where the folder tree has many sub folders or large collection of DICOM.

Poking around the sqlite database that is created, I see that the time stamps are recorded for each DICOM ingested. I’m assuming that this time stamp is then used subsequently to decide whether to re-scan a particular DICOM or not.

In addition to the “timestamp per file”, I would suggest another table with paths and path-associated time stamps. Then, the path timestamp could be used during subsequent sweeps to skip any paths that have not themselves changed since the last sweep.

When I have a chance, I’ll look for the plugin source and see if I can make the suggested modification.

Thanks,
John.